Soledad

American Dream; working where they can find a job to save enough money for their own ranch. Along the way we meet characters who prove that during this time mostly everyone chasing the Dream is lonely. The story is based in a town in California called Soledad, which then translates to loneliness. This small representation is relevant to the story Of Mice and Men because throughout the story many characters are shown…

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Have you ever experienced someone tell you only girls cry or how about that’s not lady like behavior? If you have you are not alone. From the moment you are born your parents begin to decide what color to paint your room or what clothes you should wear based on your sex. So if you are a girl they go buy pink color clothes and if you are a boy they buy blue color clothes and from that moment on you are entitled to a certain role, but you might ask who gets to decide what you can and can’t do…

to go tell crooks the plan about the ranch. The next day, they told everybody that they were going on to make their dreams come true. They left the ranch. On their way to their new ranch, they got onto a bus and went about twenty miles north of Soledad into Old Hilltown. They walked up onto the property from the bus…

When George and Lennie arrive in Soledad, George is extremely annoyed; “Wonder he isn’t too damn good to stop in Soledad at all. Kicks us out and says, ‘jes a little stretch down the road.’ I bet it was more than four miles. Damn hot day” (Steinbeck pg. 6). George is annoyed because the landscape is so wide open and hot. Because…

to work for anyone. In the beginning of the book, Lennie got both of them kicked out of the town of Weed because he grabbed onto a lady’s dress because it was red and soft. George later found another ranch that they could work at it in the town of Soledad. George and Lennie stumbled onto a ranch where they met Crooks and “the boss”. In this novel, Lennie told Crooks, an African American stable buck, about his and Lennie's…

“live of the fat o’ the land” but unfortunately during the great depression this dream was often put aside. The Dust bowl was also occurring which were several extreme droughts causing farmlands to fail severely- the location of this novella was Soledad, California which was in the middle of these droughts. The setting of a Californian ranch showcases how detached the average bindle stiff had become as they travelled from ranch to ranch attempting to earn some money during their awful economy.…

with the workers Lennie Small is a tall,buff, hard worker with the mind of a child.He travels with George his friend. George Milton is a shorter character that is also a hard worker. He watches over Lennie. The Boss is the owner of the ranch in Soledad. He has a son name, Curley. Curley is the boss’s son…

shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man.” Chapter 3 of the novel Of Mice and Men describes how Carlson, a man that works in the same Ranch as Candy, kills Candy’s old dog. Candy is an old man that works in the Ranch in Soledad, he has no arm and cleans the bunkhouse, where all the workers from the Ranch sleep in. I think it was right for Candy to let Carlson kill his old dog because he was really old, smelly, blind and had no teeth. Candy could always get another dog.…

for love. According to the model she learnt from her ancestors and from the telenovelas, Cleofilas considers that a woman’s role is to love and to suffer for love. She lives her life as a married woman in isolation between her neighbors Dolores and Soledad, pain and loneliness, who suffer because of the loss of their husbands and sons by death or other circumstances. It seems like “the women on Woman Hollering Creek suffer much from their dealings with the men in their lives” (Short stories for…